Editing Triumph (section)

===Post-[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]===
When [[Genesis]] broke into his family's house, he attempted to run only to be blocked by a swarm of Skitter's bugs. He asked what the villains wanted before [[Trickster]] began to talk to his father. Atlas tore a phone he was using from his fingers and he demanded it back, saying that the phone was his priority when Trickster asked him about it.<ref name="15.8">[[Colony 15.8]]</ref>

After Trickster took his sister hostage and looked up, Triumph whipped his head around and saw what Skitter had written. He used his power to blast Trickster away from his sister and then lunged forward, kicking the table so that it rammed into Trickster's midsection. He then used his power on Genesis before his family fled.<ref name="15.8"/>

Triumph picked up Trickster's body and fought his way past Skitter's bugs towards where Prism and his family went in. He heard something from the hallway closet and made a beeline for it before he saw what had happened to Prism. Telling his family to stay there, he then used his power on the human-shaped figures Skitter had created.<ref name="15.9">[[Colony 15.9]]</ref>

He called out for Prism and she warned him about a tripwire. He jumped over it before landing on the stairs moments before Skitter's bugs dropped down on his head. He fell and Skitter sent her insects up his nose, mouth, ear canals, and other sensitive areas. He managed to move a short distance before he collapsed again. When Skitter noticed his condition, she eased up on him.<ref name="15.9"/>

Skitter then told the mayor what was happening to Triumph. He was having an allergic reaction to her insects' stings that was causing his throat to close up and was having trouble breathing. It was only after the mayor said that he would do anything that Skitter acted, sweeping her hand to clear the blockages before stabbing him in the thigh with an EpiPen. She told him that she hadn't wanted it to come to this and he wheezed.<ref name="15.9"/>

Triumph was taken away by paramedics to the hospital in the PRT building. He was visited by Prism who he asked out for coffee. When she mentioned how she hated being injured, he questioned her about it and listened as she told him about her past.<ref name="I15">[[Interlude 15]]</ref>

Later, he walked into an argument between Miss Militia and Assault. Assault wanted to take the fight to the enemy and go against Director Piggot's order. He was caught off guard when Vista seemed to support Assault while Kid Win didn't and commented on that before saying that he considered Shadow Stalker to be a casualty. He then told them that, while he didn't think they should take what the Undersiders and Travelers had done, that he agreed with Miss Militia.<ref name="I15"/>

When Director Piggot entered the room alongside [[Armsmaster|Defiant]] and [[Dragon]], Triumph connected the dots. He then listened as they explained what they were going to do and thought about how Defiant had turned himself into a monster. Eventually, he asked why everyone was buying it before Director Piggot told him that Defiant could be sent to the Birdcage if his charges were serious enough and that, if so, Dragon would have to rethink her strategy on having her suits in Brockton Bay so that she would be able to defend herself.<ref name="I15"/>

Realizing what was going on, he looked around the room but no one would meet his eyes. He then said that Defiant had guts for being willing to take on the Nine while being so new. He realized that he was enabling the system, but also that taking on the Nine was more important. Prism then asked him if he was okay before asking if he still wanted to get coffee. Telling her no, he then wished her a good flight before leaving the room.<ref name="I15"/>

On the elevator, he thought about Armsmaster's actions and found that he could understand them. He told himself that he wouldn't ever do something like that and reflected on how he had changed. He ended up next to the scar, staring at the remains of Crawler and [[Mannequin]], to search for some clue that would let him identify monster from man.<ref name="I15"/>

When the Undersiders and Travelers attacked the PRT base, he made to lunge for Skitter only for Skitter to sidestep him before Trickster teleported her. His eyes swelled shut due to her bugs before he backed up to the window to block Trickster's sight.<ref>[[Monarch 16.2]]</ref>

Later, Triumph was present when the Undersiders came back and told them that they hadn't taken Vista. Miss Militia told Skitter how she didn't hold her punches and that she had come really close to killing him before giving out two possible scenarios. Tattletale told them how the Undersiders and Travelers had been working under [[Coil]] before they told them about [[Noelle]].

When Skitter told them that Noelle was a nascent Endbringer, he called bullshit. Tattletale then began to explain, telling them how Noelle's powers had been transforming her and how Noelle's power worked. Miss Militia told them that they had an agreement on the contingency that they had a hostage and then directed Triumph to pat Skitter down after she volunteered to be their hostage.

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